The Japan-ASEAN Science, Technology and Innovation Platform (JASTIP) is a research project funded by the Strategic International Collaborative Research Program (SICORP) of Japan Science and Technology Agency (JST), in order to promote international cooperative research that can contribute to Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). It has three research areas: Energy and Environment, Bioresources & Biodiversity, and Disaster Prevention. The Working Package 4 (WP4) is its Disaster Prevention research group for implementation of disaster-related research in ASEAN region under the JASTIP project.

To date, two JASTIP-WP4 Symposia have been held (March 2016 and March 2017) in Kyoto University, Japan. This year, at the occasion of the 25th UNESCO-IHP (International Hydrological Programme) Regional Steering Committee (RSC) meeting to be held in Manila, Philippines, on 13-16 November 2017, UNESCO Regional Science Bureau for Asia and the Pacific, Kyoto University and the Philippines
Water Partnership will jointly organize the 3rd JASTIP-WP4 Symposium as the UNESCO-JASTIP Joint Symposium on Intra-Regional Water Security and Disaster Management.